Studer problems and transfer to protools help

[lane thaw]

Heeeelllllpppp.

We tracked fine on a Studer 30 ips GP9 (the tape was purchased last year). Tape always stored in a climate controlled environment. Session ended, took tape home, a tech came in to do some work on the Studer over the weekend. I returned after the weekend to dump some "Ruffs" and now the tape consecutively slows down in different spots. We cleaned the rollers and can barely get through a song, but the same tape did fine at tracking a few days earlier. Put a different tape on, same tape batch of GP9 at same speed and no problem. Tape at the slow down spots looks fine.

Why would a new tape slow down?

Any suggestions where I can take the tape where they can check out the tape and transfer it to protools and, or another reel of GP9. If it is indeed a glue issue, a place that can bake the tape or has some "trickery" to get the tracks into a safe place without loss of signal or increased harmonic distortion.

I'm happy to travel anywhere in US but prefer NC, Nashville, Atlanta or SC.

Thanks,

Lanethaw@hotmail.com

[jamroom]

I've had similar problems with my Studer a800.My tech couldn't find anything wrong with it .You couldn't hear the change in speed but SMPTE would have trouble locking up to it.My machine only drifts in a way thats only peceptible to the machine trying to lock to it.If it slows down audibly at the same spot every time the speed variance could have been during tracvking.In which case you're screwed.I have a studer a800 set up for GP9 @ 30 in columbia sc.We could pop the tape on it if you need to and see if it's salvagable.
Thanks,
Jay

[PlatinumSamples]

Do you have SMPTE on the tape already? Try resolving it to video/black burst.

Do you have any open tracks?

Most mastering facilities should be able to bake your tape.. I've usually used Capitol here in LA.

DNA MAstering can bake tapes too: http://www.dnamastering.com/

Rail

[carival]

Bummer! It kinda sounds like the variation in speed occurred during tracking. Try recording a 1 khz tone on a spare track, the whole length of the tape. Then do the same thing on another track. Play em both back and see what it sounds like. I can't imagine the speed would change by the exact same amount every time the tape was played. Or just play the tape on another 2" machine and see what happens. Good luck.